Books Quote by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“It’s a novel, right? What’s it about?” Why did people ask “What is it about?” as if a novel had to be about only…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Best or worst, novels are all the same. Nothing but love, love, love; what silly nonsense it is! Why don’t people write about the…

— George Gissing

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be…

— Diane Johnson

People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or…

— Anonymous

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be…

— Diane Johnson

Listening to people discussing a novel can be very interesting, if you've read whatever novel is being discussed. No one, it seems, ever says,…

— Zia Haider Rahman

“I hate when people ask what a book is about. People who read for plot, people who suck out the story like the cream…

— J.R. Moehringer

No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock…

— Ishmael Reed

“In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather…

— Milan Kundera

It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that…

— Raymond Queneau

“Things were about to change. If nothing changed, I wouldn't be writing this down because this is a book about the time when everything…

— David Iserson

Fiction is too beautiful to be about just one thing. It should be about everything.

— Arundhati Roy